Oh I agree, BUT I am taking the stance that we are NOT all equal
We get BS stats showing how humans are all so similar or how a guy from Germany has more in common with Kenya than the Netherlands etc
Its nonsense masquerading as science
But once we accept the fact we are not all equal then what?
Give a less intelligent person a better job? Give a weaker person a handicap? Pretend people do not have genitals or hormones?
People get their feathers all ruffled when someone suggests this but I think it is true
It's no different than saying someone has a mental handicap (eg retarded)
Doesn't mean they should be discriminated against but seriously what is the point of the psych industry if not to help people with mental issues
If we were all equal, there would be no competitions at all.
Once we accept that we are all different and not all equal, then we realize there's little point or interest and no true competition in unbalanced matches. Which is why we don't put heavies in the ring with flyweights or run finals without eliminations. We manage to do all of that for good and proper reasons that have zero to do with gender.
You still haven't offered one reason why we can't just do more of the same without the pointless business of dividing athletes by what's between their legs. Does it really make a difference whether that bobsled or sailboat crew is all women, all men or even a mix? IF it does, then what difference? If a woman makes the qualifying time, why shouldn't she run against men?
In fact people manage to hold all sorts of gender-free competitions all the time, in all sorts of sports, so your 'objections', whatever they may be, have already been dealt with by someone, somewhere.
As f'rinstance in Boston, where men's and women'r Marathon record-times are just 16 minutes apart and everyone runs together (along with the wheelchair competitors who finish faster than both). What exactly are you arguing for? To 'protect' or preserve what?